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- Title
Preliminary observations of tag shedding, tag reporting, tag wounds, and tag biofouling for raggedtooth sharks (Carcharias taurus) tagged off the east coast of South Africa
- Authors
Dicken, M.L.; Booth, A.J.; Smale, M.J.
- Abstract
A double-tagging experiment and integrated on-site questionnaire and telephone survey were used to investigate aspects of tag shedding, tag reporting, tag wounds, and tag biofouling for the raggedtooth shark (Carcharias taurus), tagged off the east coast of South Africa. Between 2002 and 2004, 84 juvenile (<1.8m total length, TL), and 24 adult (>1.8m TL) C. taurus were double-tagged. Of these, 11 juvenile and six adult double-tagged sharks were recaptured. Significantly, more tags were shed from adult than from juvenile sharks, and there was also a significant difference between the number of anterior and posterior tags shed. Rates of tag reporting were estimated from a survey of 477 randomly selected shore-anglers, and they varied both temporally and spatially from 27% to 100%. In all, 93 tag recaptures were reported in the survey, most (75.3%) with some biofouling. Tag-inflicted damage was reported in 35.5% of recaptured sharks, and the incidence of tag-inflicted damage was greater for disk (77.8%) than for dart tags (25.3%).
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; SAND tiger shark; MOLTING; MARINE fouling organisms
- Publication
ICES Journal of Marine Science / Journal du Conseil, 2006, Vol 63, Issue 9, p1640
- ISSN
1054-3139
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.06.009